7 Factors for Windows 8 Bad Sale

Since Windows 8 was released on October 26, 2012, it has been six months till now. It isn’t growing as quickly as some would have hoped. According to the data from Net Applications, Windows 8 market share is in a sluggish development.

The fact that Windows 8 has bad sales is indisputable. This situation poses a bit of a problem to Microsoft. Have you ever analyzed the reason? A wide variety of factors has affected the sale of Windows 8. The following 7 factors hinder sales of Windows 8.

1. Safety Issues
Although Microsoft has repeatedly method that Windows 8 is the most secure version OS by far, consumers and business users still remain skeptical. So when comes to safety, Windows 8 is still difficult to attract most users, especially business users. For them, safety is the most important which should be taken the first place.

2. Bad Tablet PC Experience
Since Microsoft introduced Surface Tablet, this Tablet PC has been the judge of Windows 8 standard. What is worse, Surface Tablet provides a lower level of experience which has made Windows 8 in trouble.

3. Continued Popularity on Cougars
With Mac OS “Cougar” launch, it is difficult to be successful in this market for Windows 8. In other words, Mac OS “Cougar” has been Microsoft’s main competitors and deal a blow to it. So from this, we can see that the strong pressure on Windows 8.

4. The Decline Trend on Desktop Computers Sale
It is true that desktop computer will be eliminated. Now the shipments of the desktop computer have a significant declined rate, while laptops and Tablet PCs are very popular among PC users. The sharp decline in desktop computers sale has been a fatal factor to Windows 8 bad sale.

5. Business Don’t Need to Upgrade
Generally speaking, Business need time to determine whether a particular product is ideal for its future. It is no exception on Windows 8. For them, it is no need for them to be so eager to upgrade to the latest and the best products. As windows 8 may encounter some problems in one day.

6. Windows 7
Windows 7 is a very popular OS. In fact, Windows 7 is the most popular products for Microsoft in the software life cycle. Has the popularity on Windows 7 been effected the sale of Windows 8? Indeed, Windows 8 is a better operating system. However, for many people, this is not important. This just like several years ago when Microsoft launched Windows 7, many users of the homes and businesses still use Windows XP and need a long time to upgrade to Windows 7. Though Windows 8 is good, PC users favor Windows 7 and need time to upgrade it and get used to it.

7. An Ugly, Useless Interface on Metro, aka Modern
When comes to the interface of Metro, it is ugly and useless on the desktop. It requires us to learn a totally new way to operate which entirely different from everything we have ever learned about Windows. Well, you can use a more traditional Windows interface. But Microsoft had just kept the Windows 7 Aero interface for the desktop version of Windows 8 and give up this idea that the Metro touch-friendly interface is for every device.